Can u call a script from another hosts cron job?

**DanielCoe** · 12-07-05

Hi,

I have 1 host with cron, another without.

I want to have a timed event (on Host A) that calls a script on my on other host (Host B) , preferably with PHP.

Is it as easy as just calling a local php script on Host A with a cron which then runs an include script that calls the script on Host B?

I have read about 'wget' - does anybody know about that?

Thanks

Daniel

**Aquanuke** · 12-07-05

If the script runs by loading the page then you can use wget ie

wget http://www.mydomain.com/myscript.php

All your doing is just loading the page ie the same as if you browsed that page in a web browser.

Yes , you can run that from any machine.

**a17drian** · 12-07-05

fopen could also be another thing to try...something like:

fopen("http://yoursite/cron.php", "r")

http://www.php.net/fopen

Think that wget would be better tho...just another option

**eskimo** · 13-07-05

I had the same dilema, and through cpanel and with a little help, I was able set up the cron job to run the script, even though it was in a password protected directory.

**DanielCoe** · 13-07-05

OK thanks,

So I can try either 'fopen' or 'wget'.

Do I have to install 'wget' or should it already be installed via PHP or Unix/Apache?

Thanks

Daniel